Well, duh.
Python Eats Porcupine, Regrets It Later (Here’s Why) .
Yeah, I know we’re not suppose to post links to stories without at least some commentary. But that headline, y’know, just seems to tell the whole story.
Okay, some commentary. Actually, to be sure, it’s not clear exactly what happened to this python.
In the 2003 study, entitled “Prickly food: snakes preying upon porcupines,” researchers found that when a snake eats a porcupine, the animal’s quills are left undigested and are easily detectable in the snake’s gut. Sometimes, the quills will even pierce all the way through the snake’s body, according to the study. But there’s no word yet on whether this particular snake died because it was pierced by quills or because it fell off a ledge (or because it was pierced by quills as a result of falling off the ledge), Fuller told the Australian news website News.com .
Same story here, with even more pictures (mostly of rangers slicing the snake open and skinning it).
It says that snakes eating porcupines is not all that uncommon. It also says that outcomes similar to this are not all that uncommon.
Stupid snakes.
That’s a meal that’ll really stick to the ribs.
LSLGuy
June 27, 2015, 8:21pm
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I think it’s critically important here to eat the porcupine head first. That way it’ll probably come out OK :).
Snakes who mess up and eat the porcupine tail first are Darwin candidates for sure.
G0sp3l
June 27, 2015, 11:07pm
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I’m pretty sure the porcupine is NOT gonna come out ok.
Finding something like that would put me off cycling pretty much forever.
Ya think it’s even possible for a snake to swallow a porcupine tail-first?
Evolution hasn’t kept up-the snake saw a tasty meal, but failed to heed the spines.